Posted in Adventures, Character interaction, Characters, Dungeons and dragons, Inter-player conflict, RPG, Roleplay, Tropes, Uncategorized, backstories, storytelling, world building on Sep 1st, 2011
In his last post, Gestalt wrote about creating characters with more traditionally medieval values in his fantasy games. Now in reality, if you are striving to recreate (for lack of a better term) the most historically accurate medieval fantasy game ever to exist, that’s going to be very difficult. Many of the pieces of literature [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Character interaction, Characters, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Pathfinder, Roleplay, storytelling, world building on Aug 29th, 2011
I am going to begin today’s blog post with an important caveat: this post is not intended to imply that any form of roleplay is wrong or that there is a right way to run games in a medieval setting. With that out of the way I can hopefully reduce the number of cave trolls [...]
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If you are a long time reader of More Than Dice, you know that I am big fan of player characters and NPCs having close relationships. If that NPC can be a spouse, ward, or family member, so much so the better. Today I want to talk about why those relationships are important: so you [...]
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Last time I talked about the results of my group’s experience with the world generation system that I outlined a while ago. As promised, today I’m going to go over the Upheaval that my players decided on and then the social roles that I chose for them based on their decisions. As I outlined in [...]
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Examples of blood oaths and blood brothers can be found in history and mythology cross-culturally. While it would be easy enough for two players to announce that their characters are blood brothers and detail a ritual that they would undergo, what fun is there if they don’t actually get benefits and disadvantages as a result? Since [...]
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Posted in Character interaction, Characters, Conflict, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Inter-player conflict, Roleplay, Uncategorized, backstories on May 3rd, 2011
An intrepid group of adventurers sets out to make their name in the world. With mighty swings, bawdy songs and esoteric spells they rid the kingdom of evil and earn their place among the legendary heroes. Along the way the heroes will fight many villains, striking down each with righteous fervor and without much hesitation. [...]
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With the country up in arms over gay rights and many states acknowledging the civil rights of homosexuals I felt it was important to post on the issue of gay tolerance in the roleplay community and playing LGBT characters in RPG campaigns. In my youth, I found that a sizable contingent of gamers suffered from [...]
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In many warrior based societies the duel is the standard way of resolving conflicts which cannot be smoothed over with diplomacy. If two nobles claim to tell the truth, if one deeply insults the other, or if a crime is committed the duel is used as judge, jury, and executioner. This is due to the [...]
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While reading through the brilliant DM of the Rings comic at Twenty Sided I came across a blog post in which Shamus discusses the simple fact that wherever there are barmaids, princesses and female PC/NPCs at least one male player will want to have sex with them. Which got me thinking, in most of the [...]
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Please enjoy a look into my gaming table with this adventure log from my Urban Arcana campaign. Today’s post was brought to you by my friend Kelli AKA Tanya Nyx. August 18 – 2011 My day at work started out normally. I did some business around the club: signed for a couple delivery orders, made [...]
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